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rubocop is a rubygems library with a maintainer paid by Tidelift

The maintainers of rubocop get paid by Tidelift to implement industry-leading secure software development practices and document the practices they follow.

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Thanks to maintainers working on projects like rubocop, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.

You can feel confident bringing rubocop into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of rubocop are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.

rubocop is a part of the Tidelift Subscription

RuboCop is a Ruby static code analyzer (a.k.a. linter) and code formatter. Out of the box it will enforce many of the guidelines outlined in the community Ruby Style Guide.

Apart from reporting problems in your code, RuboCop can also automatically fix some of the problems for you.

You can learn more about RuboCop on the project docs.

Proactively reduce your organization’s reliance on bad packages

Tidelift takes a unique, data driven approach to addressing the issue of bad packages. Tidelift partners with the maintainers of thousands of the most-relied-upon open source packages and pays them to implement industry-leading secure software development practices and document the practices they follow. The result is a unique source of cross-ecosystem package intelligence that customers use to identify and eliminate bad packages.

Tidelift’s package intelligence can be easily integrated into your preferred workflows using our flexible APIs or by adopting our web UI and CLI capabilities.

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The Tidelift maintainer advantage

Tidelift is the only company that partners with open source maintainers and pays them to: 
Implement industry-leading secure software development practices and validate the practices they follow so organizations can have the same confidence in the security of their open source that they have in their own code.
Contractually commit to continue these practices into the future so that organizations can confidently make long term investments in the packages they use.
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Maintainer Gary Gregory of Apache Commons used income from Tidelift and its customers to carve out  time to create a more robust security review process.
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